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  • Leaving Iran

    Between Migration and Exile

    by Goldin Farideh ...
    Series series Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
    In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. She sought an escape from the suffocation she felt under the cultural rules of her country and the future her family had envisioned for her. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political unrest in Iran intensified and in February of 1979, Farideh’s family was forced to flee Iran on the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    by David Nirenberg ...
    A magisterial history, ranging from antiquity to the present, that reveals anti-Judaism to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition.There is a widespread tendency to regard anti-Judaism – whether expressed in a casual remark or implemented through pogrom or extermination campaign – as somehow exceptional: an unfortunate indicator of personal prejudice or the shocking outcome ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • An Empire of Their Own

    How the Jews Invented Hollywood

    by Neal Gabler ...
    A provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry.The names Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry Warner, and Adolph Zucker are giants in the history of contemporary Hollywood, outsiders who dared to invent their own vision of the American ... Read more

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  • Balkan Genocides

    Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century

    by Paul Mojzes ...
    Series series Studies in Genocide: Religion, History, and Human Rights
    During the twentieth century, the Balkan Peninsula was affected by three major waves of genocides and ethnic cleansings, some of which are still being denied today. In Balkan Genocides Paul Mojzes provides a balanced and detailed account of these events, placing them in their proper historical context and debunking the common misrepresentations and misunderstandings of the genocides themselves.A ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Origin of the Jews

    The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age

    by Steven Weitzman ...
    The first major history of the scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish originsThe Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the answer to this question can be found in the Bible, others look to archaeology or genetics. Some skeptics have even sought to debunk the very idea ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Jewish History, Jewish Religion

    The Weight of Three Thousand Years

    by Israel Shahak ...
    Series series Get Political
    Israel Shahak was a remarkable man. Born in the Warsaw ghetto and a survivor of Belsen, Shahak arrived in Israel in 1945. Brought up under Jewish Orthodoxy and Hebrew culture, he consistently opposed the expansion of the borders of Israel from 1967.In this extraordinary and highly acclaimed book, Shahak embarks on a provocative study of the extent to which the secular state of Israel has been ... Read more

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  • Haikus for Jews

    For You, a Little Wisdom

    by David M. Bader ...
    Why is this haiku book different from all other haiku books?For centuries, the Japanese haiku has been one of the world's most dazzling poetic forms. In just three short lines, it captures the sublime beauty of nature--the croak of the bullfrog, the buzzing of the dragonfly, the shriek of the cicada, the scream of the cormorant. Now, with Haikus for Jews, there is finally a collection that ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • A Genealogy of Evil

    Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad

    by David Patterson ...
    Based on extensive scrutiny of primary sources from Nazi and Jihadist ideologues, David Patterson argues that Jihadist anti-Semitism stems from Nazi ideology. This book challenges the idea that Jihadist anti-Semitism has medieval roots, identifying its distinctively modern characteristics and tracing interconnections that link the Nazis to the Muslim Brotherhood to the PLO, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic ... Read more

    Was $38.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

  • Judaism's Great Debates

    Timeless Controversies from Abraham to Herzl

    by Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz ...
    Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of this book possible: David Lerman and Shelley Wallock; D. Walter Cohen, Wendy and Leonard Cooper; Rabbi Howard Gorin; Gittel and Alan Hilibrand; Marjorie and Jeffrey Major; Jeanette Lerman Neubauer and Joe Neubauer; Gayle and David Smith; and Harriet and Donald Young.Ever since Abraham’s famous argument with God, Judaism has been full of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Unlocked Memories

    Young Russians under German Rule

    by Alexey Vinogradov, Albert Pleysier ...
    Unlocked Memories is a collection of memories that were shared by Russians who witnessed the German invasion of the Leningrad region in 1941. All were children or young people during World War Two and nearly all were natives of Luga, Oredezh, or villages that were clustered around these two towns. Each lived under German rule after the Leningrad region was overrun and occupied by the enemy.The ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Spinoza and Medieval Jewish Philosophy

    Edited by Steven Nadler ...
    Over the last two decades there has been an increasing interest in the influence of medieval Jewish thought upon Spinoza's philosophy. The essays in this volume, by Spinoza specialists and leading scholars in the field of medieval Jewish philosophy, consider the various dimensions of the rich, important, but vastly under-studied relationship between Spinoza and earlier Jewish thinkers. It is the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture

    by Eliezer Schweid, Leonard Levin, Amnon Hadary ...
    The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of "Jewish culture." This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organizes and relates them from this vantage point. The first Jewish modernization movements perceived culture as the defining trait of the outside alien social environment to which Jewry had ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD